Siccawei

English Etymology A romanization of the en wuu-sha - pronunciation of en zh 徐家匯 xxi-ka-hhue. Pronunciation en /sɪːkəˈweɪ/ /sɪːkɑːˈweɪ/ sǐʹku̇wāʺen 1952 Zikawei, Sicawei, or Siccawei Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 2143 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/2143/ 2 Proper noun en obsolete en Xujiahui, an area of Xuhui District, Shanghai, China. en 1973 w:Rewi Alley Shanghai zh:中国见闻<t:Travels in China, 1966-71> https://archive.org/details/travelsinchina1900allerich/ Peking w:New World Press 462299220 76 https://archive.org/details/travelsinchina1900allerich/page/76/ The factory we went to see was out in the Hsuchiahui (Siccawei, in Shanghai dialect) district, and was called the Deaf and Mute Workers' Electrical Appliance Factory No. 2. en 1992 Caleb Carr Caleb Carr "Not As Was Hoped, Dead..." The Devil Soldier: The Story of Frederick Townsend Ward https://archive.org/details/devilsoldiers00carr/ New York w:Random House 0-679-41114-3 91-11158 23216739 126 https://archive.org/details/devilsoldiers00carr/page/126/ Early on the morning of the eighteenth the Taipings occupied the historic town of Hsu-chia-hui, or Siccawei, just west of the port, where Jesuit missionaries had long before established an important Catholic community. en obsolete en Xuhui, the larger district of Shanghai, China, surrounding Xujiahui. References en Places in Shanghai